foeditas Latin · revision 33150

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''foeditās''' ''f'' (genitive foeditātis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ The common pronunciation was ''fēditās''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|foedus#1|-tās|t1=foul, ugly]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan explains [[m|la|foedus#1]] after Nussbaum as an adjective in ⟨-idus⟩ from a root meaning to be afraid, [[ine-pro|*bʰiH-]], if its first meaning was “frightful”; cognates of that root include [[sa|बिभाय|tr=bibháya|t=is afraid]] and [[lt|bijóti|t=to fear]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero uses it in the ''De natura deorum'' of beasts that drive off their pursuers with the unbearable foulness of their smell,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and in the second ''Philippic'' of a man's shameful disgrace.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is foulness or repulsiveness, and in particular ugliness: Pliny the Elder has the foul disease of which Sulla died and the ugliness of scars,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Columella warns that an ugly overseer's wife will put her partner off.^(OLD 2012) Livy uses it of foul weather worse than in the Alps.^(OLD 2012) Morally it is disgrace, shame or infamy.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL notes the common pronunciation ''fēditās''.^(TLL) Stelten glosses it “filth”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of a foul smell and of disgrace.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of foul weather.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella, of ugliness.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder, of scars and disease.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|foulness|alt=Foulness]], filthiness, repulsiveness; of weather, foulness.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # [[m|en|ugliness|alt=Ugliness]], hideousness, [[m|en|deformity]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|disgrace|alt=Disgrace]], shame, infamy.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[foedus#1]]

+ * [[foedō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}